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‘Like a home:’ Filipino American students join to raise visibility, preserve heritage

LOS ANGELES – Growing up in the Orange County suburbs south of Los Angeles, Camelia Heins felt like her Filipino heritage was kept at a distance. She didn’t encounter many Filipinos. Many of her classmates in elementary and high school were Vietnamese or Latino, and she wasn’t exposed to Filipino culture at home beyond the […]